Eye-cup.



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EYE 0UP.

APPLICATION I'ILED APB.19, 1909.

Patented July 12, 1910.

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WILLIAEI J. ONEILL, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 12, I916).

Application filed April 19, 1909. Serial No. 490,925.

To all whom it may camera.

Be it'known that I, WILLIAM J. ONEILL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Eye-Cups, of which the following, taken in connectionwith the drawing, is a description.

My invention has for its object the production of an eye cup designed tobe used for introducing liquids into the eye for medicinal purposes andthe like.

Further objects of the invention are to produce a device of this kindwhich may easily be kept in a clean and sanitary condition; one in whichthe cup may be disengaged from the bulb; one having the bulb soconstructed that it projects inside of the cup and forms a cork to beused-as a stopper for the vial containing the liquid to be used, thusservinga double purpose of always having the via closed, and with thecup maintained in an inverted position when not in use, which forsanitary reasons is desirable.

Other objects and advantages of my improved device Will be hereinafterexplained and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated an embodiment of myinvention, 30

which I now consider the preferred form of my construction, in whichFigure 1 is a sectional view of my eye cup applied to the eye of aperson; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the samel; Fig. 3 1s a bottom planview; and Fig. 4 illustrates the cup in inverted position with the corkin the mouth of a bottle.

In carrying out my invention A represents the eye cup, which. ispreferably although not necessarily oval in" outline, having a rim (1around the lower edge thereof and a contracted neck portion a. The cupis preferably constructed of aluminum, or other light non-flexible,non-absorbent material. 13 is a compressible bulb, provided at one endthereof with a neck'b, having a conduit 6' extending longitudlnallytherethrough. The neck 5 in roximity to its inner terminus is providedwith a peripheral shoulder b and a circumferential shoulder b surroundsthis neck a proximately mediate of the length thereo Theneck portion aof the cup fits over the neck neck a of thecup inside thereof and may beused as a cork for the bottle C, the shoulder b resting against the rimon the neck of the bottle as shown in Fig. 3.

"When it is desired to be used the device fitting into the neck of abottle as shown in Fig. 3, by compressing the bulb B the liquid will bedrawn through the conduit Z2 into the bulb, and by lacing the rim of thecup around the eye C as shown in Fig. 1 and compressing the bulbapartial vacuum is created in the cup which holds the cup securely inposition with the eye lid opened, and discharges the liquid into theeye. By

suction the cup will be held in this position until the liquid isapplied asdesired and the cup removed.

I claim An eye-cup comprising a cup member formed of rigid material andconsisting of an enlarged body portion having a beaded free end, and acontracted neck portion, and

a compressible memberterni'inating at one end in a rigid neck providedwith a peripheral'shoulder in proximity to its inner end,

said shoulder constituting-an abutment and said rigid neck furthermoreprovided with a peripheral shoulder intermediate its ends constituting asupport,-'said rigid neck extending through the neck portion of the cupmember and frictionally engagin said neck portion, whereby thecompressible member and cup member are detachablyconnected together,said neck portion engaging said abutment, said rigid neck extendingpartially through said body portion and pro- .vided with a relativelysmall passage communicating at one end with the interior of thecompressible member and at its other end opening into the body portionof the cup member.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM J. ONEILL.

Witnesses:

FLonnNcE KING, WELLS Gooonuu.

